Seagate has announced a 60Tb SSD that may ship as early as next year.
The company has shown the drive at the Flash Memory Summit in Silicon Valley. It called it a “technology demonstration,” which means there could still be a few kinks to work out. But if Seagate can deliver as planned, the drive would have close to four times the capacity of the largest SSD available currently, Samsung’s PM1633a SSD. It even trumps Lenovo’s recent announcement of a 48Tb board.
The drive will be aimed at servers and Flash arrays, where it could help meet the growing demand for storage fuelled by mobile devices, online video and the emerging internet of things.
The Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drive fits into a standard enterprise hard disk drive 89mm (3.5″) storage slot, Seagate says.
It did not provide technical details in its announcement, but it said the drive is based on a “flexible architecture” that could eventually scale to 100Tb in the same form factor.
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